CVE-2019-9798

high

Description

On Android systems, Firefox can load a library from APITRACE_LIB, which is writable by all users and applications. This could allow malicious third party applications to execute a man-in-the-middle attack if a malicious code was written to that location and loaded. *Note: This issue only affects Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 66.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-07/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527534

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-04-26

Updated: 2020-08-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High